Sony Ericsson launches top-of-the-line Xperia X1

‘Xperia X1’ features a three inch wide screen and a full keyboard. Its quality metal-finish offers a sleek look. It also features Windows Mobile and a 4GB card. This new mobile can be upgraded to 32 GB..

SONY ERICSSON launched its top-of-the-line mobile phone ‘Xperia X1’last week. This touch-screen smartphone is a 50:50 joint venture between Sony and Ericsson, which would cost Rs 44, 500. This latest smartphone provides the facilities of multimedia. This new smartphone aims to serve the needs of the users related to converged entertainment and mobile web communication experience.

While speaking to the media, Anil Sethi, the Sony Ericsson India president said that Xperia X1 would offer energising communication and premium mobile experience besides world-class quality and functionality.

‘Xperia X1’ features a three inch wide screen and a full keyboard.
Its quality metal-finish offers a sleek look. It also features Windows Mobile and a 4GB card. This new mobile can be upgraded to 32 GB. The company has aimed to target the premium multi-media devices market, which is doubling every year.

Xperia X1 features a special characteristic which can be personalised through nine panel user interfaces to suit the users’ mood and lifestyle. The users can easily access content through touch-screen, switching between applications by touching one of the unique customised panels. This new windows mobile phone is also well equipped with high data transfer rate and Wi-Fi support, which would help users enjoy the entertainment. The new Xperia X1 will be available in the United States from November 28 with a price tag of $799 at Sony Style stores and other selected stores.

Clamp-down on Chinese handsets over security issues

THE INCREASING use of mobile phones by terrorists has forced the government to clamp down on the import of mobile phones, particularly those from China which do not declare the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) numbers.

On Tuesday, minister of state for Home, Sri Parkash Jaiswal, in a written reply told the Lok Sabha that government has notified the customers to import the phones only after declaration of IMEI numbers.

It was also stated that the Department of Telecommunications has asked all the service providers to set up a Equipment Identity Registry so that calls by GSM handsets without IMEI numbers and from CDMA handsets without Electronic Serial Number (ESN) are rejected.

The government, however, informed that there was no proposal of regulating the manufacture and sale of mobile phones. The government has been forced to take this step after it was found that terrorists were increasingly using the Chinese mobile handsets, which carry no IMEI or ESN numbers. A large number of mobile phones originating from China do not carry the identity numbers.

An IMEI is a unique 15-digit code that identifies each mobile and is used to track stolen handsets. Unauthorised calls can also be blocked by the operators if these are illegal by blocking the IMEI code.

T-Mobile's double dhamaka - Samsung Behold & Gravity

T-Mobile has announced the launch of its two new phones, Samsung Behold and Gravity. While the Samsung Gravity will cost $ 49.99 with a new two year contract; the Samsung Behold will cost about $150 on a two year agreement.

SAMSUNG BEHOLD and Gravity, the two new phones would be launched in the market very soon. The T-Mobile announced the release of these two new phones on Nov 9.

The Samsung Behold features 3G connectivity and a full HTML web browser. It also has Samsung’s TouchWiz interface with designed widgets. All these features have customised and personalised this new handset.

The other characteristics of the Behold phone include a 3-inch touchscreen with 240 x 400 pixels of resolution, 5-megapixel camera with video recording capabilities, haptic feedback and a MP3 player with a 3.5mm headset jack. It also has a support up to 8 GB microSD memory card.

Apart from that it also has stereo Bluetooth compatibility.

The Samsung Gravity also has some special features like a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard. It enables users to take advantage of instant messaging clients, text, multimedia and video messaging. It also features a 1.3 megapixel camera with video recording, Bluetooth with A2DP support for stereo headsets and a microSD card slot. It also allows user to have a proper access to T-Mobile’s MyFaves service.

Both the Samsung Behold and Gravity are expected to be available in the market on November 10 and November 17, respectively. While the Samsung Gravity will cost $ 49.99 or Rs 2,375 (approx) with a new two year contract; the Samsung Behold will cost about $150 or Rs 7,125 (approx) on a two year agreement.